“As a pit bull rescuer and owner of two, I am deeply saddened to learn that Wayne State University is performing cruel, unnecessary heart failure experiment on dogs–experiments which have produced no benefits to human health throughout their two decade history”, writes Bernthal in the letter. “As you know, Wayne State researchers subject hundreds of dogs, dogs that deserve as much love as my own, to painful surgeries and experiments in an attempt to study heart failure in humans. But this is a waste of money and lives.”